Best Baseball Card pix

[Rick Von Sloneker]

an offshoot of the throwback jersey thread. favorite baseball cards. mine: george hendrick's 1977 topps, on which he wears a visor.

 

[Dickens Cider]

 

[HejiraHenry]

My thought exactly.

 

[Trey Beamon]

 

[Dickens Cider]

Ah, Don "Ears" Mossi. Well done.

 

[Bubbler]

 

[Bubbler]

Tommy Lasorda after he was placed in The Fly's machine with Jabba The Hut and a golf cart.

 

[BYH]

Nice work, **** face. Now I have to come up with another one.

 

[Rhody31]

My favorite card I own - and I have the special edition of it.
The photo is great.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Best. Rookie Card. Ever.

EDIT: Great call, Rhody31. I had that one too.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Fruit hangs no lower ...

 

[playthrough]

It's not the 'fro, it's that riveting headline.

And wow, that Griffey Jr. brings back memories. How much is that worth nowadays? That was the Hope diamond of its day, back when I still cared about baseball cards.

 

[BYH]

Best. Rookie Card. Ever.

EDIT: Great call, Rhody31. I had that one too.

Sorry man, but I can't stand that card. One, because I never got the whole Upper Deck thing. The cards weren't that sharp looking. Yeah, the photography was crisper. But the card design and what not? And the posed photos? Boring as ****.

Mostly, though, I can't stand that card b/c it marks the end of the innocence (hi Zeke!) for the baseball card industry. Upper Deck introduced the obsession with inserts and single cards and killed not only the concept of collecting a full set but also the casual collector. No thanks. Blow it out your ass, Upper Deck.

 

[Tripp McNeely]

Andy "The Unibrow" Etchebarren.

 

[playthrough]

Very true, BYH. That sent me away from the hobby. I really liked plain ol' cheap Topps cards, but at that time you looked like a tool for collecting Topps unless it was the really old ones.

 

[Dickens Cider]

BYH is correct about Upper Deck, but at least they were better than Donruss.

Donruss was the K-Mart of baseball cards.

 

[Rhody31]

BYH is correct about Upper Deck, but at least they were better than Donruss.

Donruss was the K-Mart of baseball cards.

Upper Deck brought it hard a few years ltater with their axtion cards

 

[buckweaver]

I'm on a crappy OS 9 at work, so I can't find the '82 Donruss Jim Sundberg that I posted here once before. That's still one of my favorite card photographs.

Also, Bo's 1990 Score card:

And possibly my favorite card ever: that 1992(?) Score card of Tom Glavine with a Braves uniform and hockey gear (black and white). Also can't seem to find that with my crappy computer.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

 

[BYH]

Can't anyone here figure out how to fire a manager play this ****ing game?"